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Pope appoints 'Little Ratzinger' as head of Catholic worship

Good news from Rome today, courtesy of Fr Z. The Pope has appointed Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera – known as "Little Ratzinger" – as the new Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship.

The Cardinal, currently Archbishop of Toledo, is an enthusiast for the Extraordinary Form of Mass, which he has celebrated in public. (His predecessor Cardinal Arinze, though conservative in many ways, was no great supporter of the traditional liturgy.) He has also ordained priests into the Institute of Christ the King, whose priests celebrate only using the older Missal.

The new appointment will, I hope, increase pressure on the Bishops of England and Wales to embrace Summorum Pontificum instead of ignoring or misrepresenting it.

Perhaps now the Vatican will pay attention to the fact that traditionalist priestly fraternities are virtually banned from English and Welsh parishes, and that there is no regular celebration of the 1962 Missal in the country's mother church, Westminster Cathedral.